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...firm's hierarchical family system. His inherent foreignness may well provide him a degree of freedom to maneuver, which none of his illustrious predecessors enjoyed. His challenge will be to integrate Sony's electronics and entertainment businesses, which depend on content creation and distribution, into the single value chain that has been Idei's vision for Sony. If Stringer fails, Japan's business community might experience a relief that is deeper-seated than mere schadenfreude. His success might aggravate the self-uncertainty that is endemic in Japan today...
...village was nominally under the control of pro-Russian Chechen forces; Tsentoroy, Kadyrov's home base, is only around 20 km away. Maskhadov was planning to move on toward Achkhoy Martan in western Chechnya. When his security detail failed to make contact, the guerrillas started calling down the chain of Maskhadov's liaison agents. Using some of his many nicknames - including one, Big Ears, that he disliked intensely - they asked if anyone had sighted Maskhadov. Nobody had, but this didn't cause major alarm. Rumors had been flying among the guerrillas that some sort of secret negotiations with Moscow were...
...Procter & Gamble, for instance, was once sent shopping in San Francisco's low-rent Mission District, while top executives from Kraft were taken to the traffic-control center of a large city to see whether watching 1.2 million cars being stopped and started every day could influence their supply-chain management. (It did: after collaborating with Ideo, Kraft cut in half the time it took to get new products to retail...
...ergonomically contoured Optima Grip), which it claims will help it revive market share to 70% by the end of the year. Yet Moses' PaperPro has come on strong, selling 1 million units in its first six months in a market that sells 25 million annually. At the Staples chain, which offers Moses' product under the One-Touch brand, sales average 20 units per store each week--10 times what the chain expected. "We respect what they've done," says Swingline vice president Jeffrey Ackerberg. "There's a natural need to make staplers easier to use." But, he adds, "there...
Besides, these phones are useless. They take low-quality, low-resolution snapshots that are either promptly deleted or used to send inane messages to another superfluous camera phone (“Yo, this room party in Pfoho was off the chain!”). These are not immortalized memories or family portraits. They are unnecessary invasions of my privacy...